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*[https://archive.org/stream/residencechinese00fort#page/440/mode/2up "List of Members of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India at 31 December 1854"] Contain a number of indigo planters and their location. Archive.org. (This list is located at the back of the book file for [https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese 
inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org)
**Also see [[Scientific books online]] for other edition of the ''Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India'' which may contain earlier membership lists
*[https://archive.org/stream/thirtyyearsofshi00brad#page/38/mode/2up "Among the Indigo-Planters"] Chapter III, page 39 ''Thirty Years of Shikar'' by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org. A [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/braddon-sir-edward-nicholas-coventry-5330 Biography] indicates that in 1850 or 1851 Edward Braddon managed a number of indigo factories near [[Krishnagar]], (Kishnaghur) where he worked for about five years. adb.anu.edu.au
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KJ0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA189 "Indigo and Indigo Planting"] page 180 ''The Calcutta Review'' Vol. XXX January-June 1858 Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lJIIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Papers relating to the cultivation of indigo in the Presidency of Bengal''] 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NlIEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA345 ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal No 33 part 2: Papers relating to indigo cultivation in Bengal, Volume 2''] 1860 Google Books
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